The Lord Reay | |
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Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Trade and Industry | |
In office 22 May 1991 – 14 April 1992 | |
Prime Minister | John Major |
Preceded by | Post vacant |
Succeeded by | The Baroness Denton of Wakefield |
Lord-in-waiting Government Whip | |
In office 24 July 1989 – 21 May 1991 | |
Prime Minister | Margaret Thatcher |
Preceded by | The Earl of Arran |
Succeeded by | The Earl Howe |
Member of the European Parliament | |
In office 1 January 1973 – 16 July 1979 | |
Constituency | Appointed by Parliament |
Member of the House of Lords | |
as a hereditary peer 9 August 1964 – 11 November 1999 | |
Preceded by | The 13th Lord Reay |
Succeeded by | Seat abolished |
as an elected hereditary peer 11 November 1999 – 10 May 2013 | |
Election | 1999 |
Preceded by | Seat established |
Succeeded by | The 5th Baron Borwick |
Personal details | |
Born | Hugh William Mackay 19 July 1937 |
Died | 10 May 2013 | (aged 75)
Political party | Crossbencher (1963–1966); Liberal (1966–1971); Crossbencher (1971–1972); Conservative (1972–2013) |
Spouse(s) | Tessa Fraser (div.) Victoria Warrender |
Children | 5 |
Relatives | See Clan Mackay |
Alma mater | Eton College Christ Church, Oxford |
Hugh William Mackay, 14th Lord Reay, Baron Mackay (19 July 1937 – 10 May 2013), was a British politician and Conservative member of the House of Lords. He was the only male Lord of Parliament to sit in the House of Lords following the abolition of the automatic right of all British hereditary peers to sit in the House of Lords in 1999, the only female being The Lady Saltoun.